21And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee;(for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-30)Here is, I. The fair contract made between Laban and Jacob, during the month that Jacob spent there as a guest, Gen. 29:14. It seems he was not idle, nor did he spend his time in sport and pastime; but like a man of business, though he had no stock of his own, he applied himself to serve his uncle, as he had begun (Gen. 29:10) when he watered his flock . Note, Wherever we are, it is good to be emp…
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